“MY INTEREST IN FUTURISMhas beennurtured since I was little,” says Tiana
Sinclair, aRussian-British start-upexecwhose father is a transhumanist.
“Time travel was an average subject at family dinners.”Growing upwith
an interest in technology has helped it becomebothher career andher
hobby. Alongsideher start-upEventSlides, shewrites about tech and runs
Future Tech Track, an annual event “for innovators andearly adopters”
that helps to introducepeople tonew technologies, including theNeurosky
MindWavebrain-controlleddrone (
pictured
). “Essentially brainwaves are
tiny electrical impulses that get releasedwhenour neurons arefiring,” she
explains. “The forehead sensormonitors those impulses,”which, when
analysedby a computer, canbeused tofly adrone. “I program thedrone
sowhen I concentrate it flies up; when I relax it drops. It just shows that
humans are likewalking, talking computers.Wehave the sameelectrical
impulses, and it all canbe analysed, recorded andquantified.” She loves
that there’s such a growing interest inhuman-computer interactions. “It’s
themost exciting time tobe alive.”
TianaSinclair
“Humansare likewalking,
talkingcomputers.Wehave
thesameelectrical impulses”
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